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Evaluating Gates Foundation Agronomy Grants

Evaluating Gates Foundation Agronomy Grants

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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation funded Abt Global to evaluate a selection of five agronomy grants designed by the foundation’s Agricultural Development (AgDev) team. The goal of the evaluation was to analyze results of the work of the soil…
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Improving Patient Choice: Meaningful Measures of Home Health and Hospice Care Quality

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To help patients and their families find high quality home health and hospice care, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) requires support for developing and maintaining patient assessment tools and quality measures for its Home Health and…
Evaluating the Cell and Gene Therapy Access Model

Evaluating the Cell and Gene Therapy Access Model

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services created the Cell and Gene Therapy Access Model to be able to negotiate with manufacturers on behalf of states to make high-cost specialty drugs available to beneficiaries and affordable to State Medicaid Agencies. 
Supporting Measurement, Learning, and Evaluation Efforts

Supporting Measurement, Learning, and Evaluation Efforts

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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s Economic Mobility & Opportunity (EMO) team aims to improve the lives of people experiencing poverty and to catalyze systemic changes to promote upward mobility. 
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School Meal Reforms’ Impacts on Nutrition and Costs

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The National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs (NSLP/SBP) underwent widespread changes beginning in school year 2012-2013. USDA needed to know how these food, nutrition and price reforms affected school food authorities and student participation.
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SPECIATE: EPA's Repository of Volatile Organic Gas and Particulate Matter Speciation Profiles of Air Pollution Sources

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The SPECIATE database is the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) repository of volatile organic gas and particulate matter (PM) speciation profiles of air pollution sources. The data are used to guide regulatory analysis and need to be kept up…
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Abt Refines Approach to Participatory Mapping for Land Governance in Indonesia

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With more than 17,000 islands, Indonesia has always struggled to map its plentiful resources and boundaries. Few of the country’s 65,000 villages have legally demarcated boundaries. That hampers the flow of investment and public funding to rural areas…
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The Impact of Leaking Underground Storage Tanks on Property Values

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Underground storage tanks (USTs) containing petroleum and other hazardous substances are everywhere. Accidental releases of the substances from leaking USTs (LUSTs) pose serious health, economic, and environmental risks to local residents. Abt helped the…
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eGRID: Estimating Air Pollution Emission Rates for Power Generation in the United States

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The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Emissions & Generation Resource Integrated Database (eGRID) is the preeminent source of data on the environmental characteristics of electric power generated in the United States. It’s based on available plant…
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Reducing the Harm from Malaria in Zimbabwe

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Malaria is the third most common cause of illness in Zimbabwe. Approximately 1 in 12 children die before their fifth birthday due to malaria, according to the 2010 Demographic and Health Survey. While the country had made progress in the last decade,…